Woonhuis, Zuiderpark 25

English translation

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Description

Introduction VILLA (type urban half-timbered villa), freestanding situated on the north side of the Zuiderpark opposite the Verbindingskanaal, built in 1905 on commission of J. van Bruggen after design by Groningen architect P.M.A. Huurman in a building style typical of the turn of the century, in which elements of the Chalet style and the Art Nouveau style are incorporated. The garden is bordered by simple ironwork fencing. The building is currently in use as an office with residential accommodation. Description The building is erected on a primarily square ground plan and comprises a basement, two storeys and an attic floor under a composite roof, covered with red Tuiles du Nord. The wall surfaces are alternately recessed and projecting in relation to each other and alternately rendered and executed in red brick. The gable ends have timber framing and vertical boarding. The entrance bay in the north facade is built up in red brick and has an ornamental wooden panelled door with leaded-glass side lights, a step with granite balusters and ironwork in a portico under a canopy on ornamental wooden brackets. On the northwest corner of the ground floor is a semi-circular bay window placed on a stone plinth and with a basement of granite blocks. All windows are straight-headed and have fanlights with glazing bars and stone lintels. The attic floor contains windows with glazing bars. On the west facade is a nice wooden conservatory with leaded-glass fanlights. Above this is a wooden loggia with wooden columns and balustrade. The south facade has on the upper floor a characteristic loggia with glazed side wall and balcony, supported by wooden columns. Internally, notably the hall with draught door with cut-glass panel, the ornamental stucco ceilings with flower motifs in Art Nouveau style and the wooden staircase with leaded-glass windows. Remarkable are the leaded-glass panels in the lower six windows of the staircase with flower motifs and flower wreaths in a very refined Art Nouveau style. Appraisal VILLA, type urban half-timbered villa, built in a building style typical of the turn of the century, with elements of the Chalet style and the Art Nouveau style, after design by Groningen architect P.M.A. Huurman, of general importance from an urban planning, cultural-historical and architectural-historical point of view as a well-preserved example of the characteristic villa construction, realised on the southern fortification works of the city of Groningen demolished at the end of the nineteenth century.